First of all, we are newbs to ducks, or anything besides a dog, so we are learning as we go along.

We have 2 ducks and a drake inside the converted dog house, and on one side I have the door removed so they can come and go into their enclosed shelter.

But, to reduce wind I wanted to hang a piece of plastic (think white trash bag) over the opening and put slits from top to bottom.

Do you think they will still go thru it to get their food, or will they be too afraid to push thru?

Yeah I know I can build it and see what happens, but I hate to waste the time right now...I beginning to build a laying box to place inside the dog house/coop.

Thanks for any input.

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I did it with a cheap car floor mat for the chickens pop door. and they used it, can't say about ducks mine would probably be pretty wary of it. One thing you didn't mention was if you lock your ducks inside at night for protection and just want this for daytime use.

Well the first night didn't go so well with the plastic up. They freaked out when they went into the coop. I had to move some of the strips out of the way so they could see their food on the other side. Hopefully I can introduce more of it closed each night over the next week or so.

Well I hung a piece of trash bag (white) down to cover the opening, with slits in it so that it was almost too flippy in the air to even work, and guess what? They were so freaked out by it they went nuts in the coop the first time I rousted them thru the other door. I had to take it down a little while later to get them out to their food.

I tried it another day with a small space in it so they could see their food on the other side of it, and they eventually went out to eat. But, they refused to go back into the coop and would have stayed outside all night if I let them.

So, NO, they will not accept the plastic wind break over the open door.

Oh well, just a little more work for me to make sure they are out of the wind on cold days...gotta make 'em go inside even if they don't want to. So much like children, it's not even funny.